Part One: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy

Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert sits down with Noah Shachtman to discuss the life and times of Peter Thiel, the demon investor of Silicon Valley and would-be assassin of democracy. (4 Part Series) Sources: https://www.newser.com/story/235229/peter-thiel-wanted-innovation-he-got-networking-instead.html https://www.edsurge.com/nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/01/03/what-happened-to-the-original-class-of-peter-thiels-college-skipping-fellows-nowelcome1/ ews/2023-12-12-how-a-billionaire-s-fellowship-spread-skepticism-about-college-s-value https://theintercept.com/2019/05/02/peter-thiels-palantir-was-used-to-bust-hundreds-of-relatives-of-migrant-children-new-documents-show/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/22/war-inside-palantir-data-mining-firms-ties-ice-under-attack-by-employees/ https://responsiblestatecraft.org/peter-thiel-israel-palantir/ https://www.evernote.com/shard/s542/client/snv?isnewsnv=true¬eGuid=46c636b6-b404-45df-ab0a-1f84c6fdc8c2¬eKey=7c94233539b8258d72b395a063f3c589&sn=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.evernote.com%2Fshard%2Fs542%2Fsh%2F46c636b6-b404-45df-ab0a-1f84c6fdc8c2%2F7c94233539b8258d72b395a063f3c589&title=That%2BEssay https://archive.is/ZmTHu https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-childhood-11-surprising-details-the-contrarian-max-chafkin-2021-9 https://archive.is/ZmTHu https://www.quora.com/How-was-Peter-Thiel-in-high-school https://archive.is/ncwwe#selection-887.0-891.775 https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/my-conversation-with-peter-thiel-about-apartheid-and-its-aftermath-3fdf4249b08d#.xz4kamaam https://newcriterion.com/article/the-diversity-myth/ https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-peter-thiel-20161026-story.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-contrarian-max-chafkin.html https://archive.is/0CtR2#selection-487.0-509.305 https://archive.is/QPFbm#selection-1173.0-1189.97 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/19/jp-morgan-reportedly-had-to-oust-a-security-chief-backed-by-palantir.html https://archive.is/WCWeQ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/peter-thiel-republican-megadonor-wont-fund-candidates-2024-sources-2023-04-26/ https://archive.is/ncwwe#selection-1933.0-1933.1393 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets https://archive.is/ncwwe#selection-2085.0-2085.515 https://archive.is/ncwwe https://archive.is/ncwwe#selection-1913.0-1913.1159 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-09-17/contrarian-review Chafkin, Max. The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power (p. 11). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.